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Hi, I'm A! I'm 9 years old. I used to be picky but when I tried a lot of different types of food I started to like new food. These are my top favorite recipes from my mom's blog. I started with 27 favorite recipes but had to only pick 10. Here are my top 10: 10.  Roasted Tomato Basil Soup   9. Chicken Souvlaki Kabobs 8. Chicken Fajita Quesadillas   7. Garlic and Herb Italian Bread 6. Mojo Pork Tenderloin 5. Roasted Dill Lemon Potatoes   4. Bacon Mushroom Leek Risotto 3. Crock Pot Beef Gyros 2. Banana Cinnamon Pancakes 1. Crock Pot Hurry Chicken

 Pandoro is a staple in Italian households at holiday time, along with its cousin, Panettone. Unlike panettone, pandoro has no raisins or candied fruits, and is typically served with a dusting of powdered sugar. But with all the cakes, cookies, candies and ice cream eaten in our household in the last week, there is still plenty of Pandoro to be eaten.  If you're like me and have leftover pandoro, here's a way to use it up - a zuppa inglese - a classic Italian dessert whose name translates to "English soup," although it's not at all a soup, but more of an English trifle. The words "pan d'oro" mean golden bread in Italian, and it's easy to see why once you slice into the egg-rich confection. Zuppa Inglese is typically made with sponge cake and layers of pastry cream. The cake is usually sprinkled with Alkermes, an aromatic red liqueur that's used in Italian desserts and as a digestivo.  Recipes for Alkermes date back to the Renaissance, and ge...

Happy Holidays Everyone!  I hope your holidays have been great so far, and you are ready for the most amazing New Year. 2016 was an exciting, fun and crazy-busy year for me. And I loved every day of it!  And that is thanks to all of YOU. Thank you for reading my blog, watching my videos and trying my recipes. I'm super grateful for all the love and support you showed me. I can't imagine what

While it has been too many years to count since I have been in school, I believe that I am on a path of continuous and life-long learning. Every day I learn from members of my team, other folks in the industry, friends and family. And while I am starting to get into listening to podcasts and enjoying favorite blogs and online publications that I review, books remain a key source of both pleasure and instruction. Over the years, I have found many books on leadership and management instrumental in helping me solve problems, formulate strategies and think of new ways to approach my work. There are some books that I read once and apply what I have learned and others that I return to each year and read over and over again. As the holidays draw near and you find yourself with a bit of extra downtime, try picking up a book from which you can learn a bit more about leadership and management applications. Here are some of my favorites: Everything I Know About Business I Learned from the G...

 My husband says I'm my own worst critic when it comes to food. Isn't that the case with most things? Most of the time I like what I make but sometimes there are meals that I love.  Honestly it was a good year for food and it took a bit of narrowing down to get it to ten but I think this pretty much covers my absolute favorites from this year! 10.  Chocolate Chocolate Chunk Toffee Cookies   9.  Freddy's Burgers    8. Copycat Cinnamon Biscuits   7. Pumpkin Gingersnaps     6. Company Green Beans 5. Crock Pot Three Envelope Pot Roast     4. Grilled Honey Citrus Chicken with Basil Butter    3. Hot Spinach Ranch Dip   2. Margherita Pizza   1. Easy Caramel Cake

I have been avoiding it, but it is time to think about what these last weeks mean for Venezuela. Whether we like it, political tectonics are at work and January announces itself as a very difficult month, though January may start before December 31. To try to simplify this a little bit let's start with what apparently not even tectonic forces can change. The premise of the political crisis is that a group of gangsters have taken over the country and there is no way they are going to forgo control because they know that any improvement in governance means that they will end up in jail. It is that simple, it explains it all. It even explains why the outside world is not doing much because they know that gangsters can only be disposed off through violence. After all, the democratic West did nothing for Aleppo, why should we assume they would do something for Caracas? I am looking at you Obama, by the way. The other factor that is not changing and makes the above one the worse is the e...

It's hard to believe another year is coming to an end.  In the many years I've been blogging recipes, I think this might have been my most successful.  I made a lot of recipes that I really wanted to make at the beginning of the year. I was pretty consistent at keeping up with it, I usually start falling off the wagon towards the end of the year so I'm happy about that. I love cooking and I do this because I love the thought of another family sitting down around the table with a good meal and talking about their days. That brings a beautiful image doesn't it? But I'm sure many tables look like mine come dinner time, a frazzled mom, a baby throwing food on the floor, a tired husband and a dog begging under the table. But in the REAL moments there is beauty too, there is connection and there is refreshment.  So that's why I do what I do over here in this little space of the internet.  I hope you and your family has had a wonderful holiday season and thanks for joi...

Happy Holidays everyone! I hope you enjoy a nice holiday with family and friends! Don't forget to stay warm!! Thank you for your support this holiday season!! My gift to you is another throwback article, so here is an article I wrote over a year ago. Enjoy the cringe... In Glasgow the representatives for team USA will be: Simone Biles 
Gabby Douglas
Brenna Dowell
Madison Kocian
Maggie Nichols
Aly Raisman
MyKayla Skinner Six of these athletes will be competing, one will be a traveling reserve. Non-traveling alternates are Bailie Key and Alyssa Baumann. I am pretty happy with the representatives chosen. They are all very talented gymnasts, and I'm expecting to see very high scores from these girls. - fan #1 I'm happy with the men's team. I hope they can medal even without Sam. Paul should help on high bar. - fan #2 YAY! Brenna finally made the team!!!!! 😃 I've been waiting for this.... - fan #3 I wish Alyssa could be on the team with Madison. However, I'm sure th...

This is the saddest Christmas I have ever seen in Venezuela. Admittedly Christmas may be sad for some according to family or health issues, but the country as a while still somehow manages to get into the spirit. But this year people gave up. They just gave up. How could it be otherwise? People do not even have enough cash, literally, for shopping the Christmas essentials. In Venezuela that would be to build up an Hallaca, the Christmas dish. And even if you had enough banknotes, or a well furbished checking account, there are so many staples that cannot be found or are so far out of reach that many this year will have no hallaca on their plates. And many will simply have little on their plate. Period. Last week was a frantic obstacle course for yours truly, combining a chimio session for the S.O. to buy enough food basics to hold out until January 15 at the very least. Thus I saw Caracas first hand. Christmas decorations, to begin with, are limited to perfunctory ones in banks and the...

Stronger Winds causing further Warming of the Arctic Ocean Warming is accelerating in the Arctic. On December 22, 2016, the Arctic was on average 3.33°C or 5.99°F warmer than it was in 1979-2000. Within the Arctic, the Arctic Ocean is warming most rapidly. The image below gives a snapshot of the situation on December 22, 2016 at 06:00 UTC. The Arctic as a whole was as much as 3.34°C or 6.01°F warmer than in 1979-2000. At the same time, temperatures over much of the Arctic Ocean were at the top end of the scale, i.e. as much as 30°C or 54°F warmer than in 1979-2000 (pink color at 90°N latitude). The temperature in the Arctic (north of 80°N Latitude) is also illustrated by the image below. The red line of the temperature for 2016, up to December 22, 2016. The green line is the 1958-2002 temperature. Over the entire year 2016, warming was most profound over the Arctic Ocean, which was more than 2.5°C or 4.5°F warmer than 1981-2010, as illustrated by the image below. The animation belo...